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One YouTuber spent a week burning through Dubai’s most expensive experiences so his viewers wouldn’t have to guess what it actually costs.

Christian LeBlanc, the Canadian filmmaker behind the travel channel Lost LeBlanc, built his reputation on documenting places most people only see in photos. In “BILLIONAIRE for a week – Most EXPENSIVE of DUBAI,” filmed during a 2018 trip to the UAE, LeBlanc puts a price tag in U.S. dollars on the city’s top-shelf hospitality — yacht charters, five-star suites, and the kind of access that only shows up when you’re paying peak rate. It’s less a giveaway and more a receipt-by-receipt tour of what “living like a billionaire” actually runs.

• LeBlanc charters an ultra-luxury private yacht for a cruise past Palm Jumeirah and the Dubai Marina skyline, pricing the experience in U.S. dollars on camera.
• The video documents stays at premier 5-star Dubai properties alongside the city’s exclusive nightlife and lifestyle scene.
• The vlog later earned LeBlanc a finalist nomination in the Travel category at the 11th Annual Shorty Awards, where it was highlighted as one of his featured works.

An Accountant Turned Full-Time Travel Filmmaker

LeBlanc didn’t start out chasing yacht footage. He worked as an accountant in Vancouver before walking away from that career in 2016 to film full-time, betting that a growing audience for high-production travel content would pay off. Dubai became one of his signature stops precisely because the city hands filmmakers an easy visual argument: skyscrapers stacked against desert, marinas lined with boats that cost more than most houses, and hotels built to be photographed. His “Billionaire for a week” concept applies that same instinct to the city’s luxury tier specifically — not a general travel diary, but a deliberate stress-test of what the top of Dubai’s hospitality market actually offers.

Pricing the Palm Jumeirah From the Water

The centerpiece of the video is the yacht sequence. LeBlanc boards a private charter and cruises past Palm Jumeirah and the Dubai Marina skyline, giving viewers a line-item look at what that kind of access costs per day rather than leaving it vague. It’s the same approach that’s made yacht walkthroughs a recurring draw across luxury travel content — viewers who’ve watched something like the 13.2M Super Yacht Tour of the Sunseeker 116 know the appeal isn’t the boat itself, it’s seeing the actual number attached to it.

Every activity in the video comes with a dollar figure attached — the point isn’t the luxury itself, it’s what the luxury actually costs.

Five-Star Stays and the Lifestyle Scene

Beyond the water, LeBlanc works through premier 5-star accommodations and Dubai’s exclusive lifestyle circuit, the restaurants and venues that only open up at the top end of the market. It’s the same territory covered by property tours like Dubai Luxury Villa, but LeBlanc’s angle is experiential rather than architectural — he’s not just showing the room, he’s showing what it’s like to live in it for a week and what that week adds up to.

A Shorty Awards Nod for the Travel Category

The video’s staying power showed up later when it helped push LeBlanc to a finalist nomination in the Travel category at the 11th Annual Shorty Awards, an honor given to online creators for standout work in a given category. Among his catalog, this Dubai vlog was singled out as one of the featured pieces behind that nomination — recognition that a firsthand, price-tagged breakdown of ultra-luxury travel resonated well beyond the usual glossy hotel-ad format.

LeBlanc has kept applying the same formula since — plant a camera in a city’s most expensive corner, put real numbers on the screen, and let viewers do the math on whether it’s worth it. Dubai just happened to give him the cleanest yacht shot of the bunch.